Ah! ça...mechant gamin..., est-ce que tu vas prendre l'habitude de nous amener tous les ans des averses et des bruits de guerre? [print].

Accession number: 
PML 141321.18
Author: 
Darjou, Alfred-Henri, 1832-1874.
Published: 
[Paris] : Maison Martinet, [1862]
Description: 
1 print : lithograph; image: 239 x 211 mm; sheet: 355 x 272 mm
Credit: 
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes: 

Image caption title.
Date suggested by an entry recording publication of Darjou's lithograph in the 1862 volume of the Bibliographie de la France.
At head of image: Actualités.
Plate numbered "48" at upper right.
Plate bound into album measuring 365 x 308 mm.
Signed "A. Darjou" within the image at lower left; lettered "Lith Destouches, 28, r Paradis Pre Paris" at bottom right.
Originally published in the journal Le Charivari; the separate issue, without the text on the verso.
Comprises plate 18 of a bound volume of published plates by Alfred-Henri Darjou (PML 141321).

Provenance: 
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary: 

Print shows a middle aged man, at left, wearing a tophat and spectacles and carrying an umbrella, angrily accosting the figure of a little girl, at right, wearing a dress lettered "Printemps" on the skirt, carrying a drum and parasol and pulling a toy cannon behind her on a string.

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